Evening Snacks South Indian Recipes, South Indian Veg Snacks Recipes

We have a large collection of 47 different types of South Indian Snacks.Yes, it's clearly evident that South Indian snacks and the different types of South Indian Evening snacks recipes are super popular not only in South India but all across our lovely country.

“Tiffin” is a word commonly heard in South India. Tiffin refers to snacks had at breakfast time or in between meals (usually in the evening), with a cup of hot coffee or Masala Chai.

Deep Fried Evening Snacks South Indian

Bonda

Who cannot resist South Indian Evening snacks like Urad Dal Bonda which can be served with some sambar. Another delicious bonda variation to make is the Rava Bonda.

Ribbon Sev

Ribbon Sev, also known as Ribbon Pakoda, Ola Pakoda or Ottu Pakoda in South India is a broad, ribbon-shaped sev that is super crisp because of the perfect proportioning of rice flour, besan and butter.

Evening Snacks South Indian, Jar Snacks

Kai Murukku

Kai Murukku is one of the most famous South Indian jar snacks. Made with a dough of rice and urad, this chakli like snack is shaped entirely by hand, which requires a bit of practice to master.

Baked Ribbon Sev

Baked Ribbon Sev is so healthy and equally tasty! Made of besan and whole wheat flour, its baked instead of fired to make a perfect jar snack.

Omapodi Recipe

Omapodi is an super popular jar snack in Tamil Nadu. It has withstood the test of time and continues to delight South Indians over decades!

Butter Murruku is a savoury deep fried snack made of rice flour, urad dal and besan. Looks exactly like Chakli.

Popular Evening Snacks South Indian Recipes

Keerai Vadai

Keerai Vadai is one of the most popular South Indian evening snacks, enjoyed with a hot cup of filter coffee. It is a crispy dal vada, perked up with chopped amaranth leaves.

Thattai

Thattai is a flat, round-shaped, deep-fried snack made with a perfect mix of rice flour, urad flour and spices. So wonderful does it taste with tea that you will find even small tea shops stocking this scrumptious deep-fried snack in their glass jars!

Healthy South Indian Evening Snacks

Tava Chana Dal Vadas

Instead of deep frying vadas, we have made this healthy Tava Chana Dal Vada which is made of healthy chana dal and cooked crisp on a tava.

Masala Vadai

The famous South Indian snack becomes unrecognisable in its new tava-cooked avatar! We have modified the traditional, deep-fried Masala Vadai recipe by adding iron and folic acid rich dill leaves, and tava-cooking the vadais.

Enjoy our South Indian Evening Snacks and South Indian Recipes article below.

A quick and easy batter of semolina and curds fortified with colourful and crunchy veggies, yields mouth-watering appe that’ll appeal to young and old alike.
The Instant Rava Appe is a scrumptious South Indian snack, which can be enjoyed with

Broken Wheat Upma, as the name suggests is a nutrient-rich wheat based upma. While the broken wheat brings in loads of dietary fibre and energy, carrot and green peas bring along a wealth of nutrients, especially vitamin A.
The veggies also add crunch to an otherwise soft upma. You may also add ....

Who would have thought you can make the all-time favourite Dahi Vada without deep frying in oil! Here, we have cooked the flavourful vada batter in a non-stick tava greased with minimal oil, and used this to make delectable chutney-laced Dahi Vadas.
Soak and squeeze the vadas just before servin ....

Uttapa with rice is tasty but common! When you feel like cooking something exotic, try this whole grain uttapa made with bajra and of course some rice and urad dal too. You will thoroughly enjoy the unique flavour and crisp texture of the Mini Bajra Onion Uttapa, while also benefiting from the iron ....

You will love the exciting crispness of these delectable Dal Vadas. Made with a coarse paste of soaked chana dal perked up with onions, ginger paste and the whole traditional team of flavour enhancers, these vadas have a unique, rustic texture and warm, hearty flavour that will strike a chord with m ....

This is how South Indian love to have their chana, and it’s so tasty that everybody will enjoy it, without a doubt!
Cooked kala chana is tempered with mustard, urad dal and other traditional ingredients, and garnished with fresh and juicy grated coconu ....

Ribbon sev, made of rice flour and besan is one of the most popular jar snacks in South India. We bring you this famous snack, albeit in a healthier form.
Made from a dough of besan and whole wheat flour spruced up with a dash of spices, this Baked Ribbon Sev is so healthy and equally tasty! You ....

Nice green colour and flavour. Roast the semolina and prepare the coriander chutney the previous evening and toss up this upma quickly in the morning. Once you have this upma, you will not like plain regular upma.

Ribbon Sev, also known as Ribbon Pakoda, Ola Pakoda or Ottu Pakoda in South India is a broad, ribbon-shaped sev that is super crisp because of the perfect proportioning of rice flour, besan and butter. The dough for this deep-fried snack is flavoured aptly with chilli powder and asafoetida, which gi ....

Eager to make bonda but in no mood to soak the stuff, grind the batter, and all? Go for this yummy Rava Bonda, which has a fabulously crispy texture and a peppy flavour, all achieved without any complex or time-consuming procedures.
The rava is soaked in curds, perked up with ingredients like on ....

Keerai Vadai is one of the most popular South Indian evening snacks, enjoyed with a hot cup of filter coffee. It is a crispy dal vada, perked up with chopped amaranth leaves.
Along with onions and usual taste enhancers like ginger, coriander and curry leaves, this recipe also includes fennel see ....

Kai Murukku is one of the most famous South Indian jar snacks, and is like an endorsement of one’s cooking skills! Made with a dough of rice and urad, this chakli like snack is shaped entirely by hand, which requires a bit of practice to master.
However, it is completely worth the effort because ....

Crispy dal vadas dunked in hot rasam, this snack is sure to shake you awake! The tangy, spicy flavour of the rasam complements the texture as well as the taste of the chana dal vadas very well, resulting in a wholly satisfying experience!
Here, we show you how to make chana dal vadas as well as ....

Omapodi is an all-time favourite jar snack in Tamil Nadu. It has withstood the test of time and continues to delight generations of South Indians!
It draws a parallel with the North Indian sev, but the flavour of ajwain sets the Omapodi apart from regular sev. In fact, ‘omam’ means ajwain in Tam ....

Thattai is one of the most popular jar snacks in South India.
So wonderful does it taste with tea that you will find even small tea shops stocking this scrumptious deep-fried snack in their glass jars!
Thattai is a flat, round-shaped, ....

Thattai is one of the most popular South Indian jar snacks, and one that is used as a benchmark for a person’s cooking prowess. The traditional Thattai is made with a dough of roasted rice flour, a dash of urad flour and a couple of flavourful seasonings. Th ....

Seedai is a super popular South Indian jar snack, which is inseparable from Janmashtami celebrations in Tamil Nadu. Every household makes a batch of tiny, ball-shaped seedais by deep-frying a dough of rice and urad flours with butter and spices, to offer to ....

Next only to Idli and Dosa, Pongal is amongst the most popular breakfast recipes in South India.
Usually made of rice and moong dal, cooked and spiced up with pepper and cumin seeds, Pongal is quite sumptuous and ensures that you don’t get hungry till lunch time!
We have made this popular re ....